Alessandro Pace (born 20 May 1977), better known by his stage name Alex Vega, is an Italian

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and part-time DJ. Founder of the musical project The Foreshadowing, he was previously associated with the bands Dope Stars Inc. and Klimt 1918. Pace assumed the name Alex Vega in 2005 when he joined Dope Stars Inc. as a replacement guitarist for Brian Wolfram. Pace left Dope Stars in 2007 and left an earlier project, Klimt 1918, a year earlier in 2006. Currently, Pace is only involved in his own band The Foreshadowing.

Biography

Pace was born on 20 May 1977 in

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, Italy. He grew up there where he began playing guitar casually in

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bands in the early 1990s. In 1996 he joined the band Spiritual Ceremony until he quit soon after. He soon began writing his own songs for an unnamed

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and

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band which never got past development stages due to trouble with finding band members. In 2001, Pace joined

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as guitarist. He got to play live shows with them and he felt it was a good learning experience. He recorded a 7” EP with Hauruck and a split EP with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio until he joined Klimt 1918 in April 2002. Pace left Spiritual Front in 2003 and went on to record two studio albums with Klimt 1918;

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in 2003 and

Dopoguerra ''Dopoguerra'' (''Post-war'') is the second full-length album by Italian alternative rock band Klimt 1918. It was released in 2005 on the German label, Prophecy Productions, which gave the band exposure outside their home country. Compared to the ...

in 2005. Also in late 2004, Victor Love, lead singer of Dope Stars Inc. and friend of Pace through other bands, asked Pace to join the band as a replacement guitarist for former member Brian Wolfram. Pace agreed and finished up recording for their debut album,

Neuromance ''Neuromance'' (stylized as ''://Neuromance'') is the debut studio album by Italy, Italian industrial rock band Dope Stars Inc. and is also the first project by the band released under the Trisol Music Group label. Lyrically it focuses on traditi ...

, which released in mid-2005. Love stated that Wolfram did not quit but that they wanted a new guitarist and that Pace completed the line-up and that "he contributed a lot for Neuromance even if he joined so late." With Dope Stars, Pace assumed the stage name Alex Vega that would stick with him during his time with the band. Pace kept with Klimt 1918 until 2006 where he quit and became exclusive to Dope Stars. He then recorded the EP Make a Star and the full album

Gigahearts ''Gigahearts'' is the second studio album by Italian industrial rock band Dope Stars Inc. Lyrically it focuses on traditional cyberpunk beliefs and themes. The album was released in 2006 first in Europe and in other countries including North Am ...

with them, both of which released in 2006. In 2007, soon after the release of Gigahearts, Pace left Dope Stars Inc. for "personal reasons" Meanwhile, The Foreshadowing, a band that Pace had begun in 1997 but never officially formed joined together in 2006 and have since released a full album, Days of Nothing, have recently finished to work on their second album, Oionos, which has been released in April 2010. Pace is now a part-time

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and plays exclusively for The Foreshadowing.

Discography

With

: *
No Kisses on the Mouth
' – (Hau Ruck! 2003)
Satyriasis
– (Cold Meat Industry 2005) *''Angel of Ashes: a Tribute to Scott Walker'' – 2006 With Dope Stars Inc.: *

(Trisol Music Group 2005) * Make a Star (Trisol Music Group 2006) *

(Trisol Music Group 2006) With Klimt 1918: *

(My Kingdom Music 2003) *

(Prophecy Productions 2005) With The Foreshadowing: * Days of Nothing – (Candlelight Records 2007) * Oionos – (Cyclone Empire Records / Metal Blade USA 2010) *

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– (Cyclone Empire Records / Metal Blade USA 2012) * Seven Heads Ten Horns – (Cyclone Empire Records / Metal Blade USA 2016)

References

External links

official Dope Stars Inc. websiteofficial Klimt 1918 websiteofficial The Foreshadowing website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vega, Alex 1977 births Living people Italian rock guitarists Italian male guitarists Italian heavy metal guitarists Italian DJs Industrial musicians Synth-pop musicians Alternative rock musicians Musicians from Rome Italian electronic dance music DJs 21st-century Italian guitarists 21st-century Italian male musicians